Concrete That Was Poured for What You're Putting On It

Patios, spa pads, walkways and steps across Wise County and the Metroplex — built on a base that accounts for how this soil moves.

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A patio and a spa pad are not the same job

A patio is poured for people walking on it. A spa pad carries four to six thousand pounds, concentrated in one rectangle, permanently. Those are different specifications and they should never be quoted as the same thing.

For a spa pad we pour four inches minimum, reinforced, on a compacted base, finished level to within about a quarter inch across the whole slab, graded so water runs away from your foundation rather than toward it.

Level matters more than most people expect. An acrylic shell is engineered to carry its load evenly across the full base. Set it on a slab that's out by an inch corner to corner and the load concentrates on three points instead of the whole footprint. That's how a shell with nothing wrong with it develops stress cracking.

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What we pour

• Hot tub and swim spa pads — sized to the model, reinforced, level, drained

• Patios — new pours, extensions, and replacing slabs that have failed

• Walkways and paths — poured, scored, or set pavers in decorative stone

• Steps and landings

• Equipment and generator pads

• Approaches and parking extensions

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The base is the job

North Texas sits on expansive clay. It swells when it's wet and shrinks when it's not, and it does that every year. Concrete poured onto uncompacted fill moves with it, and moving concrete cracks.

So the part you'll never see is the part we spend the time on: excavation to the right depth, a properly compacted base, reinforcement sized for the load, and grade set before anyone mixes anything. Anyone quoting you on square footage alone hasn't looked at where your water goes.

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Timing, honestly

Concrete cures. You aren't setting six thousand pounds on a slab poured on Thursday.

If a spa or swim spa is coming, the pad has to be planned when you choose the unit, not after you've bought it. Weather is part of it too: below 40°F we blanket and protect a new slab for its first days, and in July and August we pour at first light so it doesn't dry too fast. Fall is the easy season here; spring is close behind.

The cheapest step in a spa project is pouring the pad first. The most expensive is pouring it twice.

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Already have a patio?

Sometimes it's fine. Often it isn't, and the only honest way to know is to look.

We check thickness, whether there's reinforcement, what the slab is sitting on, how level it actually runs, and where water goes when it rains. A four-inch reinforced slab in good condition, sized properly for the model you're buying, will usually carry a spa. A two-inch decorative overlay poured over sand will not, however good it looks.

If the answer is no, we'd rather tell you before the truck is booked than after.

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Tell us what's there now. Send a photo of the space and what you're planning to put on it. We'll tell you straight whether it holds and what it takes if it doesn't. No charge for the conversation.

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Concrete, decking, turf, courts and spas — same crew, one schedule.